CoverSutra 4+

As of v4.0.3, this is a good start for the app, but is most definitely not your “go to standalone music player” as the app description says. First, there’s no playlist support. Next, there is no independent volume control. Your music will play at whatever volume your Mac’s volume is set to. The search needs a compact view option. It doesn’t support the system’s light/dark theme setting. Hope you like dark grey, because there is a lot of it. When displaying search results, the menu takes up most of the screen, even when just showing a single result. There are no keyboard shortcuts by default, and it doesn’t looks like you can interact with the menu via the keyboard (up/down, etc.). You can manually choose keyboard shortcuts, but there should be some by default. There doesn’t appear to be a way to control whether the app launches at startup or not via the app’s settings. That’s another thing you have to manage manually. I also find the search feature much slower than the Music app for my large library. This app has real promise, and it looks like the dev will be actively working on it, so I look forward to seeing what it can become.

I was a longtime enjoyer of the old CoverSutra, so it’s lovely to see it’s back. Quite a new direction though: a standalone music player that lives in the menu bar!

Firstly, there is no way to search for just a song - if I enter the partial name of a song, it shows ALL the contents of every album that might contain that song instead of just a list of songs. Secondly there is no Playlist functionality. Finally everything is search-based, no way to browse through a list of artists, playlists, etc. Which brings me back to the badly implemented search functionality. And once I do find a song to play, I cannot even position the playhead to the middle of the track, it keeps resetting. Feel like I wasted my money on this :-(